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Are welcome back to the podcast.

I am joined today with Dr. Francis Stevens.

He is a PhD-level psychologist.

He did some further fellowship post-back work in neuroscience.

And he has written a book called Affective Neuroscience in Psychotherapy, a Clinicians

Guide for Working with Emotions, and I am excited to have you on.

Yeah, I'm excited to be here.

I always love talking about psychology, talking about this book.

Yeah.

So the basic just to the book is a focus in psychotherapy on emotion, and six steps helping

a client through this process, emotional awareness, mindfulness, so becoming aware of your

emotions, emotional validation, so validating your client's emotions, helping a client

develop self-compassion, step three, step four is understanding the nature of emotion,

so not just kind of like distracting away from the meaning of the potential, why they're

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